WHAT THEY’LL GET IS A SHUTDOWN DEMAND FOR FREE HEALTHCARE FOR ILLEGALS: Democrats Need a Reset on Immigration, Crime, and Social Order.

During the Trump era, the Democratic Party has stumbled on a number of issues, perhaps none more than immigration and crime. Back in February, I outlined how the party has shifted markedly leftward on the former topic in recent years, shedding the more moderate, balanced approaches of presidents like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama in favor of one that was more in vogue with advocacy groups. Many high-profile Democrats essentially endorsed, tacitly or explicitly, an open-borders policy.

But as the country faced an unprecedented surge in migration under Joe Biden’s presidency, Americans swiftly rebelled against this thinking. Polling showed that after decades of growing support for increasing immigration levels and waning support for decreasing them, each trendline reversed—hard—during Biden’s term. His handling of immigration was ultimately a key reason why Trump won last year, and voters today say they overwhelmingly trust Republicans over Democrats on the issue.

Though Americans typically do not consider crime and public safety to be as big a problem as immigration, it has become yet another albatross for Democrats under Trump’s reign. As he has ramped up an anti-crime push in cities and states across the country, they have found themselves in the position of defending relatively lower levels of crime—levels that still are not acceptable to many people. Americans today trust Republicans over Democrats to handle crime to an even greater degree than they do immigration.

All this points to a broader issue for team blue: they’ve lost the confidence of the public on issues related to social order.

To be fair, at least since Ayers acolyte Barrack Obama destroyed the DLC, Democrats came to believe that their path to power required trampling on the social order.